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Date:         Tue, 1 Apr 2008 06:17:08 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Cardiac Event
In-Reply-To:  <47F19A8D.8070404@charter.net>
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Volks,

Thanks very much for the kindnesses, the voices of concern, and the well-wishes that have been expressed, both on list and off. I am functioning and making progress. Please now get on with the business of Vanagon business.

But before closing, a few words:

My life has been a bit different.

I fair t-boned a compact car with the Red Brick(vanagon content) - nobody hurt, minimal damage to the brick, more to the compact. I have been in three airplane wrecks which totaled the airplanes - not air to ground crashes but where airplanes out of control ran into something on the ground. I have had helicopter pilots transitioning to fixed wing aircraft try to hover the trainer planes 5 to 7 feet in the air, only to drop very hard to the t\runway, thus bending things. blowing tires. I have had parts fall from airplanes in flight, I have put two airplanes on their backs in landing incidents, I have flown a Cessna 180 on skis through an outside loop - not because I wanted to, but as a disparate measure to avoid a certain killing crash. I have had turbofan engines automatically shut down on the airplane while on the takeoff roll where liftoff would have put me over a 600 foot drop into the sea. I have had a really pissed off loon attack me and my kayak. Of course I brought it on by playing a tape recording of his own voice back to him. I don't know what the tape said, but boy did he get mad.! I have eaten a porcupine with no ill effects, I have eaten Eskimo "Stinky Fish" with ill effects(don't ask - bad memories), I have had the privilege of hunting with the Yupik Eskimo people. I been chased by one of the most dangerous animals in Alaska - a cow moose with a calf. . Lightening has struck my place three times - once burning the paint off the metal front door and frying the overhead lamp and fan in my living room, once blowing all the siding off my barn/shop all the way around d the base of the building, and once hitting my oak tree and me at the same time - killing the tree, but sparing me, and my latest performance was to have a heart attack!

Life has been an adventure for me!

I ain't even a'gonna ask "what's next?"! I might get struck by lightening - again! Or worse.. :-)

Gad! You gotta be tough to be old!

John Rodgers 88 GL Driver

John Rodgers wrote: > Vanagon content: I drove myself in the Red Brick to the clinic at the > VA hospital to see the PC. I was rushed to the ER. The rest is history. > > Today I got out and did some walking. First time since getting out of > the hospital for a heart attack. All went well. > > I had heavy pressure in the chest, difficulty breathing, pain in the > right and left sides of the jaw, pain in my teeth. Classic heart attack > symptoms. Spent five days in the hospital getting worked over, then the > docs came and said I showed no heart damage of any kind, that I seemed > to have suffered some sort of stress related heart event, and I should > take the pills they gave me to prevent such a thing from happening > again. AND to lose 80 lbs. > > At this point, I feel great! > > It was an adventure. > > I think I am going on vacation. > > John Rodgers > 88 GL Driver > Chelsea, AL > >


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